California (Bay Area, Northern) SF MOMA: Susan Meiselas

This is a very strange coincidence. I was just now at the Frontier restaurant in Albuquerque talking with another photographer named Ed who shoots drag races, Latino festivals, bikers, all manner of street shooting, etc. We share a lot of likes and dislikes (love photojournalism, dislike most fine art photography and soulless dentist/yuppie gear hounds), and he lent me a book to read called "When Photography Really Works" that features all the heavy hitters like Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Man Ray, etc, as well as someone I had never heard of named Susan Meiselas.

He knew her, and talked glowing about an out of print book she did on photographs of strippers in carnivals (if ever there was a job to die for, that must have been it). There was a story he told about her, but you will have to come here to Abq and meet Ed to hear it. I highly recommend the book, and look forward to looking at some of Susan's work online. Should be a great show at SFMOMA, one of my favorite places in 'frisco. I lived many years in the Tenderloin photographing, painting and drawing on it's streets. I can call it 'frisco.
 
Steve M. said:
....... He knew her, and talked glowing about an out of print book she did on photographs of strippers in carnivals (if ever there was a job to die for, that must have been it). .....
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I have a first edition of Carnival Strippers, the one that includes the CD of the interviews she did with her subjects. If you ever have an opportunity to acquire a copy, do not pass it up.
 
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